Read this article to find out what are the differences between terminating and stopping an EC2 instance. This article is written by by well known DevOps trainer - Rajesh Kumar. Answer Terminate Instance When you terminate an EC2 instance, the instance will be shutdown and the virtual machine that was provisioned for you will be permanently taken away and you will no longer be charged for instance usage. Any data that was stored locally on the instance will be lost. Any attached EBS volumes will be detached and deleted. Read more click here Reference:- This article was originally posted in scmGalaxy.com